BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?

Subject: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 03:17 PM

What could it be? Why will they eat almost anything without objection? Why are they almost always excited and enthused by anything new that you offer them? Why do they not care who you vote for or what shoes you decide to wear?

Could it be that they are smarter than we are????

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Emma B
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 03:24 PM

yup!

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Goose Gander
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 03:29 PM

While some dogs are rather uncritical, others are quite discriminating in their tastes. One really shouldn't make blanket statements about entire species, you know. I suspect that it is your anthrocentric point of view that limits your perceptions of the rich variety of dog experience.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 03:35 PM

Uncritical? I once had a St. Bernard try to bite my face off just because he didn't like the way I looked!

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: dwditty
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 03:35 PM

Perhaps because not one of them is a Mudcatter....it's a joke! sheesh.

dw

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Emma B
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 03:38 PM

we're listening to this you know.....

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: gnomad
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 04:34 PM

Because they are not cats.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 04:38 PM

my dog was very critical -wouldnt eat tinned dog meat, growled if the grandcchildren came near her when she was trying to sleep. Hated the vet --and I miss her every day.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:20 PM

LOL!!!!!!!!! Love the Basset picture!

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:07 PM

Not critical maybe but not too fussy either when it comes to trying to have sex with one of your legs.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:09 PM

That's true, and they give NO thought whatsoever to how your other leg might feel about it!

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: John Hardly
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:10 PM

Dogs are not uncritical. For instance, mine do not read the mudcat forum.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:11 PM

LOL @ LH

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:28 PM

Sure they are smarter. They know if the person at the door (unseen) is known to them or not. They bark. Now if that ain't critism what is it?

WOOF WOOF WOOF = OK yer miserable excuse for an intruder, lets see how ya can run ya wimp

woofwoof = OK I ain't biting the had that feeds me but you call that chocolate? Sheesh!

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: MaineDog
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:33 PM

because they are (mostly)not folk singers
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:20 PM

. . . because they're dogs!

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:01 PM

Because them are so much dumber than cats.

Someone had to say the truth!

That's not to say that having a dog as a loyal pet isn't good. Just don't count on his advice when you can't meet the next payment on your adjustable subprime mortage.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Ernest
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 02:13 AM

So will you share your cats wisdom on adjustable subprime mortgages with us, Charlie?

And I think cats are not more intelligent than dogs - especially when it comes to politics: a cats answer on any political question will be MAO. Even the Chinese are getting more critical about him now...

;o)
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Slag
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:22 AM

Cats are psychopaths. They really only care about themselves. They barely tolerate another cat's presence unless it is mating time. They will let you pet them IF they want you to pet them and ONLY if they want you to pet them. And then they can go off and some times they really go OFF!

Dog are oriented to others. They find their identity in a pack. The are fiercely loyal, keen observers have incredible sense of smell. The will fight when they have to and won't give up ( not quite true of ALL dogs though). They don't care about who you are or what you are. The love you unreservedly. The aren't necessarily smarter, just less encumbered by our problems. They keep it simple and what they do, they do well. They save human lives, often and can be trained to do the same. When is the last time you saw a rescue cat? Or a team of cats pulling a sled? Fetching game? Leading a blind person? Sniffing out explosives? Killing cats?

Oh, COME ON! Cats kill everything they can get their claws and fangs into. Mice, gerbils, squirrels, birds, birds and more birds, lizards and the bigger cats like Bobcats and Pumas kill dogs and people. So give me a break!

Dogs are wonderful animals and if you have a cat, well, that fine too. Just keep it on a leash when out of doors.

I'm afraid dogs DO criticize. For instance, my father had a wonderful German Shorthair, bred 3/4 field champion. He would hunt upland game, point and hold the point until you released him. He would fetch game with a tender mouth and if ever the bird was still alive that's how he returned it to your hand, still alive. He never once chewed a bird. But... if you flushed a bird and missed your shot he'd really cuss you out. He was greatly indignent if he began to run after the bird's track and the bird didn't drop. He was good; he knew he was good and YOU had better be good too!

I guess, like people, some dog are and some aren't. Critical, that is.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:59 AM

I have lived among the critters being discussed and I have a couple of things that I always keep in mind:

First, always remember that dogs have owners, cats have staff.

Second, never.....I repeat.....never believe that you are as good as your dog thinks you are.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: The PA
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 07:10 AM

Our collie seems to have a permanently split personality.

The pointy end with teeth growls ferociously at exactly the same time as the fluffy tail end is wagging away furiously.

Its a talent she has. Confuse the humans then they can't possibly know what you're thinking, what mood you're in or what you're going to do next ?????????????

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 07:39 AM

Hey - that's canine sarcasm.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Ernest
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 07:47 AM

If cats have staff clearly people living in the same household with a cat ARE staff.

This does not lead to the conclusion that dogs are dumber than cats. But it might suggest that cats are more intelligent than the humans in the same household. At least as those who quote the abovementioned saying without noticing that they in quoting it make themselves inferior to cats.

;0)
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 07:51 AM

Ya think, Ernest???????

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Ernest
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 07:59 AM

Yes Mick - no offense meant.

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: MaineDog
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 08:00 AM

Actually, Dex gets upset if I throw his frisbee and it goes somewhere he doesn't expect. He thinks he's got the calculus thing pretty well figured out, but he hasn't learned that the calculus no longer works when the frisbee is so chewed that it won't fly right.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 08:02 AM

Ernest...I think you missed the context....my comment was tongue in cheek... absolutely no offense taken.....***chuckle***.....no offense intended on my part either.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 10:27 AM

There's a book called "Dogs never lie about love" (it's got some good scientific material in it, and some photos of laughing dogs - yes, really - on the cover), in which there's one observation that intrigues me. Briefly, when two dog-people meet, with their dogs, and speak, and then move on, the dogs go with their "owners". We've all seen it. The author remarks that dogs must be the only creature that prefer the company of another species to that of their own.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Goose Gander
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:24 AM

"The author remarks that dogs must be the only creature that prefer the company of another species to that of their own."


That's because they think we're big dogs on two legs.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 01:39 PM

Well, I have always tended to prefer the company of lizards, actually, so it isn't just dogs. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Emma B
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 02:41 PM

and so talented too

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 02:43 PM

Is it because they're not 'folkies'?   

*wink*

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 04:01 PM

Big Mick said: Second, never.....I repeat.....never believe that you are as good as your dog thinks you are.


I prefer to put a positive spin on that:

I endeavor to be as good a person as my dogs think I am!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 04:48 PM

Why you pickin' on me, Maggs?????????? I am going to sic my dog onya. He will knock you down, lick your face until you canna breath, and lay on your head. Git 'er, Riles!!

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 05:01 PM

My dog's most potent weapons are his breath and body odor!

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 05:22 PM

Oh no. A REAL dog's most potent weapon is the fart. Particularly after eating brussels sprouts.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 05:25 PM

I include that under the general category of canine "body odor".

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:08 PM

The fart thing reminded me of my guy, Riley. He has such an expressive face, and he is smart as hell. He was laying with his head on my lap. He didn't lift a muscle with the exception of his tail. It went straight up in the air, this whistling sound....phweeeeeeeeeeeeehug....comes out, and the most gawdawful smell ever. My eyes were tearing up, and he lifts his head, and looks me straight in the eye. I swear he was saying, "Let's see you do that, Skippy!". That made me laugh out loud, which made me inhale, which made me gag...... and the ladies in the house were sitting there just laughing at the scene.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:11 PM

My dogs eat once a day, usually in the evening after a walk. They gobble it down in about 90 seconds. I pick up a handful of the chunks from each bowl before they start eating so when each finishes her bowl she looks to me for the rest, not to the other's bowl. I have them do a few tricks and to catch chunks of food tossed to them. My pit bull has the funniest way of catching, crunching, and burping all at once.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 03:35 PM

Very lucky with dogs all my life I never had a bad one,and if I get to Heaven and those dogs don`t come running to greet me, then, to hell with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: MMario
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 03:42 PM

Or a team of cats pulling a sled

there was a cat team entered in the Iditerod at least once. I believe they finished.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Bee
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 03:51 PM

Finished what? Their owner? I'm betting that's what my cats would do if I tried such a thing.

They're going to be royally peeved next week anyway, because I've agreed to take in a neighbour's old girl-dog for a week. I may never see Snowball again.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 04:48 PM

Dachshunds have never, to my knowledge, been used as sled dogs. I wonder why? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:01 PM

Slag gives a convincing argument. Come to think of it, I have never seen a seeing eye Jaguar.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Nick E
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:18 PM

Have you ever heard of a cat dragging it's owner out of a burning building?
No but we have all heard of...
Cataracts
Cataclysm
Catastrophe
Ca(t)stration!
And think how many people have died in Airplane accidents!
The first powered flight was where.... Kitty Hawk !

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Leadbelly
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 03:42 PM

Nick, forgotten and much more dangerous : Cat-holicism.
On the other hand there's a cat-walk (for models); not bad at all.

I do believe, that dogs mostly behave like their owners are.

This wasn't meant completely cat-ty, but nevertheless...

Manfred

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: MaineDog
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 04:08 PM

Actually, one of my music group sent me a photo (circulating in cyber space) of a blind dog who had a seeing eye cat for a friend. Its just that the won't do it for people.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Leadbelly
Date: 01 Mar 08 - 03:04 PM

By thinking this thread over I came to the result, that dogs are not uncritical. On the contrary, they are mighty clever. They just do what human beings do expext and consequently they are in a situation to lead a comfortable life. You really do not know what they are thinking by doing foolish things just to please their family and... to get a fantastic meal.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Mar 08 - 04:38 PM

So true. The 2 dachshunds who live here are past masters at the art of living a life of total leisure and being fed well to do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: MaineDog
Date: 01 Mar 08 - 06:19 PM

We are sitting here on a snowy nite, listening to the Prarie Home
Companion, and the sound effects guy just barked. Dex went wild, and looked all over for his challanger. So I guess he is uncritical in some areas. Can't even tell a dogue from a people. Yup, that's about right in other areas, too.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Goose Gander
Date: 01 Mar 08 - 07:18 PM

A dogue?

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Mar 08 - 07:40 PM

Has anybody thought it might be because they are not bitches?

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 03:25 AM

I do believe, that dogs mostly behave like their owners are.

Show me the owner who can lick his own testicles and not put his back out, and I'll be round with the chocolate spread.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Slag
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 05:53 AM

But then you wouldn't SQUEAK, Liz. Maybe SQUEEL, but you wouldn't SQUEAK.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Bee
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 12:48 AM

I am currently hosting A Dog, who arrived this afternoon. She's very uncritical, so long as I give her very basic doggie needs. Her name is Lady, she's ten years old, and she looks like a cross between a Border Collie and a Hassock.

Neither cat will come downstairs. Tommy lies on the top steps and glares down in speechless wrath and disbelief. Snowball has flattened himself under the hall dresser and shows no sign of ever emerging. I've temporarily transferred their necessities upstairs. Hopefully a detente will be reached in the next day or two, as Lady is also not critical of cats, having one of her own in more usual circumstances.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 02:24 AM

Good thing you don't have the Siamese cat we once had. World War III would have broken out about one second after the dog crossed the threshold. No hesitation whatsoever in that animal! He only once met a dog he could not utterly rout...and that was one hell of a large and mean dog. He'd have had to kill that one to rout him, and he just wasn't physically capable of killing a fullgrown and infuriated Black Lab...not that he didn't have the will to at least try it.

The moment he figured out that he couldn't kill that dog but that it definitely could kill him...and would...he vanished into the bushes. Gone in an instant. The dog tore all over the place looking for him, but never succeeded in finding him.

That was one hell of a smart cat. I think he may have been a reincarnated Ninja or something like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 02:41 AM

You know, I don't think I'd call it mean to be infuriated with someone trying to kill you.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 10:24 AM

I was walking the dogs last night at dusk and a neighbor rode up on his bike. We stood talking for a few minutes and the dogs weren't at all alarmed because of my tone, etc. And they decided, when I let them each in turn approach him to be petted, that he tasted good. Probably salty from riding his bike. They were each intent on licking his knee.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: John Hardly
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 10:33 AM

This past week and a half, Ariel has been in season.

Breeze doesn't know what hit him.

Breeze is only 10 months old. This sex thing is altogether new for him and he hasn't taken his mind off of Ariel for the whole week.

He's pacing around the house, panting, whining, and even quivering, and he has a permanent boner.

I basically just described my teenage years.

GOT SEX?

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 11:36 AM

Richard, I agree with you...Inky the Black Lab had every reason to be infuriated with our Siamese cat which was trying to kill him. However, the word "mean" is still a good description of Inky regardless. He was mean because he had an owner who left him tied up way too much and who beat him frequently for no good reason. On occasion, Inky would escape and go roaming around and it was on one such occasion that he ran into our canicidal Siamese cat, who knew exactly where our property line was and how to defend it against "filthy" trespassers like Inky.

I've never known a more aggressively territorial cat. He would have attacked an elephant if it had come on our property.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: MaineDog
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 12:07 PM

Yes, 'dogue'.
It rhymes with 'vogue'.
Both of these are magazines I have seen on sale. The Dogue magazine was at a pet store in Camden.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Bee
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 04:26 PM

John H, that's a lovely photo and a beautiful dog.

LH, our last cat was perfectly content with proper visiting-with-humans dogs, but straying into his yard unaccompanied was asking to be run off with extreme prejudice. I've seen him chase a seventy pound Husky-Doberman cross around a tree four times before the dog came to his senses and headed for the woods.

On the present cat and dog front, Tommy is cautiously extending the sniff of greeting today, as long as the dog stays lying down, while Snowball still believes that staying under large items of furniture is the best course of action.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:09 PM

Snowball clearly does not have the heart of a lion beating in her little white chest. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:23 PM

John, assuming you're not breeding the dogs, do you have a good defense against the "sneaky next door dog" syndrome?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: John Hardly
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:42 PM

Bee,

Thanks. Trying to get a good photo of Breeze is like trying to carry water in a basket.

Maggie,

We keep her in mostly -- and away from Breeze. So far so good. We're hoping to spay her in 8 weeks. We're now investigating the very best methods to spay a 7-year-old. Dar is scared to death.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Bee
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 09:12 PM

John Hardly, to my shame and for inherently poor reasons (I was poor), our now passed on Dawg was not spayed (but never had puppies) until she was seven, and then it was an emergency hysterectomy because her uterus was horribly infected. Our vets performed what was essentially a spay when everything has gone wrong. She was home in one day, with a less than three inch scar which healed in no time. Healthy Ariel will likely have no problem at all, and will be out of the vet's without even an overnight stay.

IOW, don't be scared. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: MaineDog
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 09:25 AM

Sometimes I let Dex out on a tether when he wants to get some air and I don't. It's a light, flat woven affair with clips on each end. The other day he was walking around and he managed to step on it with his hind foot. He immediately concluded that someone was restraining him. He began to bark, which is unusual, unless a moose comes into the yard, or a UPS truck, or if he gets tangled around trees. I had to go out and rescue him from his own foot.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 09:40 AM

Why are dogs so uncritical?


Because they like to have fun!

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 03:21 AM

There you go then... MaineDog has the answer. Dogs are so uncritical because they've learned the basic tenent that one should check for the beam in one's own eye first, before mentioning the splinter in anothers'.

Dex has obviously discovered that if he can be fooled by his own limbs, he has no call to be critisising others choice of actions.

A cat would have just sat there and sneered at him. A cat owner/staff would have rolled around on the ground howling with laughter.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: John Hardly
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 06:35 AM

They like to have fun with their people

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Bee
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 09:37 AM

JohnH, that is surreal, to say the least. I read a few of the comment pages. Let no one tell you kids with internet access are sophisticated - at least half of them were completely taken in by the images.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 09:46 AM

That was weird all right. I think this is even weirder.

Japanese self-defence technique for women.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 10:54 AM

My dogs are going to get a little company this afternoon. After the futile attempt to find a garage repair company last weekend, I concluded that the way to have it done by a company with regular employees is to call a company with a modest-sized ad in the yellow pages, not a two-page spread screaming "24 hour emergency service!" That translates to contractors and subcontractors and gouging. I spoke to a very reasonable fellow who asked good questions, gave me a good price (not so low to set off alarm bells, but one that factors in the costs and the labor in a reasonable way). I'll put the dogs in their stall with the gate blocked shut, and by the simple move of introducing the dogs to the service guy when he gets here, they'll wag happily and treat him like family. If he gets close, they'll lick his hands or face, and if you don't watch it, they'll get you on the mouth. Just like family.

If the repair guy has any reservations about the dogs being nearby but blocked off from his area, I'll put them in the house in a bathroom (so they are separate from the cats). Because it doesn't do him or the dogs any good to be nervous about each other.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 12:31 PM

John......old buddy.......pottery business slow????.....LOL.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Leadbelly
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 01:26 PM

Am I allowed to put the following question to you?
Over 30 years we have had and still do have cats. Now we are thinking about to add a dog to this little family.
This new member shouldn't be too large/heavy and above all, this dog has to be friendly to our cats and - hopefully - vice versa. And he can be uncritical, haha.
Do you know any kind of dogs/ breed/spirit which come near to this? Just to mention, that we own a large garden.

Could be an own thread, but I think it can be done here.

Manfred

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 01:28 PM

The problem won't be the dog, it will be the cats.....Have you asked their permission......***chuckle***

Good luck,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Leadbelly
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 01:32 PM

No, Big Mick, I haven't. Obviously they would say: " We don't need someone barking around and stinking after rain falls".

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Bee
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 02:39 PM

My limited experience indicates having the cats bring up a puppy is best. Three dogs I know, brought up with cat/s from puppyhood, were extremely friendly to all cats they encountered, to the point of having self esteem issues when a strange cat rejected their sincere advances. One of those dogs also learned to groom herself as a cat does, licking paw to wash face and all.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 03:12 PM

I wonder if people who like cats are more critical than people who like dogs. Its said, you grow like your dog.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Becca72
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 03:59 PM

"Actually, one of my music group sent me a photo (circulating in cyber space) of a blind dog who had a seeing eye cat for a friend. Its just that the won't do it for people."



Certainly not for FREE! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Bee
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 04:07 PM

WLD, what about people who like both? Neutral on all fronts, or just conflicted?

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 04:20 PM

My household now contains two people, two cats, and two dogs. While I think I'm in charge, the cats are pretty certain they run the place. The dogs don't give a shit as long as they get walked fairly often and fed every day.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 09:54 AM

You know those yappy little dogs.

Perhaps they are saying, you are disgusting - quite unworthy of a lick. I don't like the cut of your gib - not one little bit. If I hadn't given my presence away by yapping - I would probably piss on your foot. I'll think of it next time all right.

But they are excitable by nature, so they never do remember the stealthy approach.....

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 10:29 AM

"the cats are pretty certain they run the place. The dogs don't give a shit as long as they get walked fairly often and fed every day."

Sounds sort of like a thumbnail description of the differences between men and women...if you substitute another word for "walked".

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 10:55 AM

The word has almost the same footprint, doesn't it? Swap two letters and you have a smile on your Neanderthal face. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 03:00 AM

HMmmm... now which two letters would that be?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 May 08 - 01:21 PM

I thought it was only one letter.

Subject: RE: BS: Why are dogs so uncritical?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 13 May 08 - 03:24 PM

Cos they know that if they are, they won't get any food!

Sal